After United States Air Force
- 2%Founded something4
- 19%Joined a startup43
- 25%Joined a big company56
- 54%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave United States Air Force most often go to Booz Allen, U.S. Air Force Reserve and Lockheed Martin. Of them, 19% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 4y 5m
Not the United States Air Force's troop strength: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 303 people on a map of 67,181, No. 80 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 3030.5% of everyone on the map
- Serving now
- 3311% of the people here
- Moved on
- 27089% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 4y 5mmiddle half 3y to 6y 3m
Put United States Air Force side by side with another employer.
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Air Force Research Laboratory. Most leave for Booz Allen (4% of recorded departures).
6 of 85 recorded arrivals shown, 79 more from 76 other companies49 of 235 recorded departures shown, 186 more to 166 other companies
How long people stay
6%<1y
8%1-2y
23%2-4y
41%4-7y
23%7y+
320 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
71312
161413
172114
131015
151016
282017
211418
191719
161420
113521
<31922
102123
31324
5725
0426
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 183 joined, 232 left.
Caliber
65mediantop 10%83
0Eng Scorer caliber, 102 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer9
- Flight Commander6
- Software Developer6
- Cyber Security Analyst5
- Intelligence Analyst5
- Program Manager5
- Computer Scientist4
- Cryptologic Language Analyst4
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 70% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 4%Strong4 people
- 10%Solid10 people
- 53%Emerging54 people
- 33%Unproven34 people
102 of the 303 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
4 of the 102 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 4%. A tier is the band a caliber score falls in, so this is the same measurement as the median on the caliber card, opened up.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
28%Titles that rose43 of 153 classified people
- 28%Rose43 people
- 58%Stayed level88 people
- 14%Fell22 people
153 of the 303 people here had a title that could be placed on the ladder before and after.
A title rose when the last title recorded here sits higher on the ladder than the first. For someone with one title here who then left, it's measured against the first title of their next role. The ladder runs intern, junior, mid, senior, staff or manager, principal, director, VP, then founder or C-level. Titles that match no rung are left out rather than guessed, and product, program and project managers are left out entirely as a different ladder. What's left leans towards people who have left: someone still here on one recorded title has nothing to measure against.
Where they studied
- Community College of the Air Force20.1%
- Georgia Tech11.2%
- United States Air Force Academy10.9%
- University of Maryland Global Campus6.8%
- University of Maryland5.8%
- Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center5.1%
- Western Governors University5.1%
- Air Force Institute of Technology4.1%
The 8 most listed schools among the 294 people here with a school on file.
59 of the 294 people here with a school on file list Community College of the Air Force, 33 list Georgia Tech and 32 list United States Air Force Academy. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
16%have a public GitHub account on their profile
49 of the 303 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts. An account the check missed reads the same as no account, so this is a floor.
31% is the median across the 857 companies that can show this figure.
Where they are now
36% of the people who have worked at United States Air Force and list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% of everyone on the map.
United States Air Force
Everyone on the map
- 36%Washington DC110 · map 13%
- 10%SF Bay Area29 · map 41%
- 4%New York13 · map 18%
- 3%Baltimore10 · map 0.7%
- 3%Los Angeles10 · map 5%
- 2%Boston7 · map 2%
- 2%Dayton7
- 2%Seattle7 · map 5%
- 36%Somewhere else110
All 303 people who worked at United States Air Force list a location, and every share here is over them.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while working at United States Air Force: a metro here isn't an office there. The lower strip is the same metros across the whole map.
On the same resumes
Companies that show up most often alongside United States Air Force, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 303 people on the Zelcast alumni map have served in the United States Air Force: 33 are there now, 270 have moved on.
- Most leave for Booz Allen: 10 people, 4% of recorded departures. Then U.S. Air Force Reserve and Lockheed Martin.
- Most arrive from Air Force Research Laboratory: 3 people. Then MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
- Median tenure in the United States Air Force: 4y 5m, middle half 3y to 6y 3m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after United States Air Force, 2% went to a founder title next, 19% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 25% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 65 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 102 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Flight Commander.
- Top school: Community College of the Air Force, listed by 59 of the 294 people here with one on file (20.1%). Then Georgia Tech (33).
- 36% of the 303 people here who list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 16% of the 303 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 43 rose, 88 stayed level, 22 fell, out of the 153 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder before and after.
About this data: built from 352,028 jobs across 67,181 engineers in the Zelcast network and Eng Scorer reads, updated September 30, 2026. A move counts when the next role starts within 24 months of leaving. Companies under 20 people on the map aren't shown, and destinations under 3 people fold into the totals. Caliber is the Eng Scorer score.
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